Animated presentation creator

ABSTRACT

Aspects create a multimedia presentation wherein processors are configured to calculate a time it would take to narrate a plurality of words in a document at a specified speech speed in response to determining that the time it would take to narrate the plurality of words in the document at the specified speech speed exceeds a specified maximum time, generate a long summary of the document as a subset of the plurality of words, generate audio content for a first portion of the plurality of words of the long summary by applying a text-to-speech processing mechanism to the portion of the long summary at the desired speech speed, and create a multimedia slide of a multimedia presentation by adding the generated audio content to a presentation of text from a remainder portion of the plurality of words of the long summary.

BACKGROUND

An automated presentation creator is an application (“app”) that isexecuted on a computerized device processor that automatically analyzesan input document to provide a summary of the input document in the formof a presentation. Generally, the summary, and therefore thepresentation, is much shorter than the input document. Due to the sizeand conciseness of the presentation, a user can save time viewing thepresentation rather than reading the entire input document.

SUMMARY

In one aspect of the present invention, a computerized method forcreating a multimedia presentation includes executing steps on acomputer processor. Thus, a computer processor is configured tocalculate a time it would take to narrate a plurality of words in adocument at a specified speech speed and in response to determining thatthe time it would take to narrate the plurality of words in the documentat the specified speech speed exceeds a specified maximum time, generatea long summary of the document as subset of the plurality of words thatcomprises highest relevant information identified by applying naturallanguage processing to the document, and that require a time to narrateat the specified speech speed that is less than the specified maximumtime. The computer processor is further configured to generate audiocontent for a first portion of the plurality of words of the longsummary by applying a text-to-speech processing mechanism to the portionof the long summary at the desired speech speed and create a multimediaslide of a multimedia presentation by adding the generated audio contentto a presentation of text from a remainder portion of the plurality ofwords of the long summary.

In another aspect, a system has a hardware processor in circuitcommunication with a computer readable memory and a computer-readablestorage medium having program instructions stored thereon. The processorexecutes the program instructions stored on the computer-readablestorage medium via the computer readable memory and is therebyconfigured to calculate a time it would take to narrate a plurality ofwords in a document at a specified speech speed and in response todetermining that the time it would take to narrate the plurality ofwords in the document at the specified speech speed exceeds a specifiedmaximum time, generates a long summary of the document as subset of theplurality of words that comprises the highest relevant informationidentified by applying natural language processing to the document, andthat requires a time to narrate at the specified speech speed that isless than the specified maximum time. The computer processor is furtherconfigured to generate audio content for a first portion of theplurality of words of the long summary by applying a text-to-speechprocessing mechanism to the portion of the long summary at the desiredspeech speed and create a multimedia slide of a multimedia presentationby adding the generated audio content to a presentation of text from aremainder portion of the plurality of words of the long summary.

In another aspect, a computer program product for scheduling an eventhas a computer-readable storage medium with computer readable programcode embodied therewith. The computer readable hardware medium is not atransitory signal per se. The computer readable program code includesinstructions for execution which cause the processor to calculate a timeit would take to narrate a plurality of words in a document at aspecified speech speed and in response to determining that the time itwould take to narrate the plurality of words in the document at thespecified speech speed exceeds a specified maximum time, generates along summary of the document as subset of the plurality of words thatcomprises the highest relevant information identified by applyingnatural language processing to the document, and that requires a time tonarrate at the specified speech speed that is less than the specifiedmaximum time. The computer readable program code further includesinstructions for execution which cause the processor to generate audiocontent for a first portion of the plurality of words of the longsummary by applying a text-to-speech processing mechanism to the portionof the long summary at the desired speech speed and create a multimediaslide of a multimedia presentation by adding the generated audio contentto a presentation of text from a remainder portion of the plurality ofwords of the long summary.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features of embodiments of the present invention will bemore readily understood from the following detailed description of thevarious aspects of the invention taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 depicts a cloud computing environment according to an embodimentof the present invention.

FIG. 2 depicts abstraction model layers according to an embodiment ofthe present invention.

FIG. 3 depicts a computerized aspect according to an embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustration of an embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustration of an embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computerprogram product at any possible technical detail level of integration.The computer program product may include a computer readable storagemedium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereonfor causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.

The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that canretain and store instructions for use by an instruction executiondevice. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but isnot limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device,an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, asemiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of theforegoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of thecomputer readable storage medium includes the following: a portablecomputer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), aread-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROMor Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portablecompact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD),a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such aspunch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructionsrecorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. Acomputer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construedas being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freelypropagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagatingthrough a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulsespassing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmittedthrough a wire.

Computer readable program instructions described herein can bedownloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computerreadable storage medium or to an external computer or external storagedevice via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, awide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprisecopper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wirelesstransmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/oredge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in eachcomputing/processing device receives computer readable programinstructions from the network and forwards the computer readable programinstructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium withinthe respective computing/processing device.

Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations ofthe present invention may be assembler instructions,instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions,machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions,state-setting data, configuration data for integrated circuitry, oreither source code or object code written in any combination of one ormore programming languages, including an object oriented programminglanguage such as Smalltalk, C++, or the like, and procedural programminglanguages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programminglanguages. The computer readable program instructions may executeentirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as astand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partlyon a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. Inthe latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user'scomputer through any type of network, including a local area network(LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to anexternal computer (for example, through the Internet using an InternetService Provider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including,for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gatearrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute thecomputer readable program instructions by utilizing state information ofthe computer readable program instructions to personalize the electroniccircuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.

Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference toflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus(systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of theinvention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchartillustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented bycomputer readable program instructions.

These computer readable program instructions may be provided to aprocessor of a general-purpose computer, special purpose computer, orother programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, suchthat the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computeror other programmable data processing apparatus, create means forimplementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or blockdiagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructionsmay also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can directa computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or otherdevices to function in a particular manner, such that the computerreadable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises anarticle of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects ofthe function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram blockor blocks.

The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto acomputer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other deviceto cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer,other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computerimplemented process, such that the instructions which execute on thecomputer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement thefunctions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block orblocks.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate thearchitecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementationsof systems, methods, and computer program products according to variousembodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in theflowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portionof instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions forimplementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternativeimplementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of theorder noted in the Figures. For example, two blocks shown in successionmay, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks maysometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon thefunctionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of theblock diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocksin the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implementedby special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specifiedfunctions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardwareand computer instructions.

It is to be understood that although this disclosure includes a detaileddescription on cloud computing, implementation of the teachings recitedherein are not limited to a cloud computing environment. Rather,embodiments of the present invention are capable of being implemented inconjunction with any other type of computing environment now known orlater developed.

Cloud computing is a model of service delivery for enabling convenient,on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computingresources (e.g., networks, network bandwidth, servers, processing,memory, storage, applications, virtual machines, and services) that canbe rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort orinteraction with a provider of the service. This cloud model may includeat least five characteristics, at least three service models, and atleast four deployment models.

Characteristics are as follows:

On-demand self-service: a cloud consumer can unilaterally provisioncomputing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, asneeded automatically without requiring human interaction with theservice's provider.

Broad network access: capabilities are available over a network andaccessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneousthin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).

Resource pooling: the provider's computing resources are pooled to servemultiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physicaland virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according todemand. There is a sense of location independence in that the consumergenerally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of theprovided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher levelof abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter).

Rapid elasticity: capabilities can be rapidly and elasticallyprovisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out andrapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilitiesavailable for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can bepurchased in any quantity at any time.

Measured service: cloud systems automatically control and optimizeresource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level ofabstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage,processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can bemonitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both theprovider and consumer of the utilized service.

Service Models are as follows:

Software as a Service (SaaS): the capability provided to the consumer isto use the provider's applications running on a cloud infrastructure.The applications are accessible from various client devices through athin client interface such as a web browser (e.g., web-based e-mail).The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloudinfrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage,or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exceptionof limited user-specific application configuration settings.

Platform as a Service (PaaS): the capability provided to the consumer isto deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquiredapplications created using programming languages and tools supported bythe provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlyingcloud infrastructure including networks, servers, operating systems, orstorage, but has control over the deployed applications and possiblyapplication hosting environment configurations.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): the capability provided to theconsumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and otherfundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy andrun arbitrary software, which can include operating systems andapplications. The consumer does not manage or control the underlyingcloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems; storage,deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networkingcomponents (e.g., host firewalls).

Deployment Models are as follows:

Private cloud: the cloud infrastructure is operated solely for anorganization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party andmay exist on-premises or off-premises.

Community cloud: the cloud infrastructure is shared by severalorganizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns(e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and complianceconsiderations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third partyand may exist on-premises or off-premises.

Public cloud: the cloud infrastructure is made available to the generalpublic or a large industry group and is owned by an organization sellingcloud services.

Hybrid cloud: the cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or moreclouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities butare bound together by standardized or proprietary technology thatenables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting forload-balancing between clouds).

A cloud computing environment is service oriented with a focus onstatelessness, low coupling, modularity, and semantic interoperability.At the heart of cloud computing is an infrastructure that includes anetwork of interconnected nodes.

Referring now to FIG. 1, illustrative cloud computing environment 50 isdepicted. As shown, cloud computing environment 50 includes one or morecloud computing nodes 10 with which local computing devices used bycloud consumers, such as, for example, personal digital assistant (PDA)or cellular telephone 54A, desktop computer 54B, laptop computer 54C,and/or automobile computer system 54N may communicate. Nodes 10 maycommunicate with one another. They may be grouped (not shown) physicallyor virtually, in one or more networks, such as Private, Community,Public, or Hybrid clouds as described hereinabove, or a combinationthereof. This allows cloud computing environment 50 to offerinfrastructure, platforms and/or software as services for which a cloudconsumer does not need to maintain resources on a local computingdevice. It is understood that the types of computing devices 54A-N shownin FIG. 1 are intended to be illustrative only and that computing nodes10 and cloud computing environment 50 can communicate with any type ofcomputerized device over any type of network and/or network addressableconnection (e.g., using a web browser).

Referring now to FIG. 2, a set of functional abstraction layers providedby cloud computing environment 50 (FIG. 1) is shown. It should beunderstood in advance that the components, layers, and functions shownin FIG. 2 are intended to be illustrative only and embodiments of theinvention are not limited thereto. As depicted, the following layers andcorresponding functions are provided:

Hardware and software layer 60 includes hardware and softwarecomponents. Examples of hardware components include: mainframes 61; RISC(Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture based servers 62;servers 63; blade servers 64; storage devices 65; and networks andnetworking components 66. In some embodiments, software componentsinclude network application server software 67 and database software 68.

Virtualization layer 70 provides an abstraction layer from which thefollowing examples of virtual entities may be provided: virtual servers71; virtual storage 72; virtual networks 73, including virtual privatenetworks; virtual applications and operating systems 74; and virtualclients 75.

In one example, management layer 80 may provide the functions describedbelow. Resource provisioning 81 provides dynamic procurement ofcomputing resources and other resources that are utilized to performtasks within the cloud computing environment. Metering and Pricing 82provide cost tracking as resources are utilized within the cloudcomputing environment, and billing or invoicing for consumption of theseresources. In one example, these resources may include applicationsoftware licenses. Security provides identity verification for cloudconsumers and tasks, as well as protection for data and other resources.User portal 83 provides access to the cloud computing environment forconsumers and system administrators. Service level management 84provides cloud computing resource allocation and management such thatrequired service levels are met. Service Level Agreement (SLA) planningand fulfillment 85 provide pre-arrangement for, and procurement of,cloud computing resources for which a future requirement is anticipatedin accordance with an SLA.

Workloads layer 90 provides examples of functionality for which thecloud computing environment may be utilized. Examples of workloads andfunctions which may be provided from this layer include: mapping andnavigation 91; software development and lifecycle management 92; virtualclassroom education delivery 93; data analytics processing 94;transaction processing 95; and processing for scheduling an event 96.

FIG. 3 is a schematic of an example of a programmable deviceimplementation 10 according to an aspect of the present invention, whichmay function as a cloud computing node within the cloud computingenvironment of FIG. 2. Programmable device implementation 10 is only oneexample of a suitable implementation and is not intended to suggest anylimitation as to the scope of use or functionality of embodiments of theinvention described herein. Regardless, programmable deviceimplementation 10 is capable of being implemented and/or performing anyof the functionality set forth hereinabove.

A computer system/server 12 is operational with numerous other generalpurpose or special purpose computing system environments orconfigurations. Examples of well-known computing systems, environments,and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with computersystem/server 12 include, but are not limited to, personal computersystems, server computer systems, thin clients, thick clients, hand-heldor laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems,set top boxes, programmable consumer electronics, network PCs,minicomputer systems, mainframe computer systems, and distributed cloudcomputing environments that include any of the above systems or devices,and the like.

Computer system/server 12 may be described in the general context ofcomputer system-executable instructions, such as program modules, beingexecuted by a computer system. Generally, program modules may includeroutines, programs, objects, components, logic, data structures, and soon that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract datatypes. Computer system/server 12 may be practiced in distributed cloudcomputing environments where tasks are performed by remote processingdevices that are linked through a communications network. In adistributed cloud computing environment, program modules may be locatedin both local and remote computer system storage media including memorystorage devices.

The computer system/server 12 is shown in the form of a general-purposecomputing device. The components of computer system/server 12 mayinclude, but are not limited to, one or more processors or processingunits 16, a system memory 28, and a bus 18 that couples various systemcomponents including system memory 28 to processor 16.

Bus 18 represents one or more of any of several types of bus structures,including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, anaccelerated graphics port, and a processor or local bus using any of avariety of bus architectures. By way of example, and not limitation,such architectures include Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus,Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) bus, Enhanced ISA (EISA) bus, VideoElectronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and PeripheralComponent Interconnects (PCI) bus.

Computer system/server 12 typically includes a variety of computersystem readable media. Such media may be any available media that isaccessible by computer system/server 12, and it includes both volatileand non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media.

System memory 28 can include computer system readable media in the formof volatile memory, such as random access memory (RAM) 30 and/or cachememory 32. Computer system/server 12 may further include otherremovable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer system storagemedia. By way of example only, storage system 34 can be provided forreading from and writing to a non-removable, non-volatile magnetic media(not shown and typically called a “hard drive”). Although not shown, amagnetic disk drive for reading from and writing to a removable,non-volatile magnetic disk (e.g., a “floppy disk”), and an optical diskdrive for reading from or writing to a removable, non-volatile opticaldisk such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or other optical media can be provided.In such instances, each can be connected to bus 18 by one or more datamedia interfaces. As will be further depicted and described below,memory 28 may include at least one program product having a set (e.g.,at least one) of program modules that are configured to carry out thefunctions of embodiments of the invention.

Program/utility 40, having a set (at least one) of program modules 42,may be stored in memory 28 by way of example, and not limitation, aswell as an operating system, one or more application programs, otherprogram modules, and program data. Each of the operating system, one ormore application programs, other program modules, and program data orsome combination thereof, may include an implementation of a networkingenvironment. Program modules 42 generally carry out the functions and/ormethodologies of embodiments of the invention as described herein.

Computer system/server 12 may also communicate with one or more externaldevices 14 such as a keyboard, a pointing device, a display 24, etc.;one or more devices that enable a user to interact with computersystem/server 12; and/or any devices (e.g., network card, modem, etc.)that enable computer system/server 12 to communicate with one or moreother computing devices. Such communication can occur via Input/Output(I/O) interfaces 22. Still yet, computer system/server 12 cancommunicate with one or more networks such as a local area network(LAN), a general wide area network (WAN), and/or a public network (e.g.,the Internet) via network adapter 20. As depicted, network adapter 20communicates with the other components of computer system/server 12 viabus 18. It should be understood that although not shown, other hardwareand/or software components could be used in conjunction with computersystem/server 12. Examples, include, but are not limited to: microcode,device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays,RAID systems, tape drives, and data archival storage systems, etc.

FIG. 4 illustrates a process or system according to the presentinvention for creating a presentation based on a document. At 202 aprocessor that is configured according to an aspect of the presentinvention (the “configured processor”) calculates the time needed tonarrate a plurality of words in an input document at a specified speechspeed. The input document may be in any file format, so long as text canbe extracted from the input document: (illustrative but not limiting orexhaustive examples include a Portable Document Format (PDF), Worddocument or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)). For example, if there are1,500 words in the input document and the desired speech speed is 150words per minute, the configured processor calculates the time needed tonarrate the document as 10 minutes.

At 206, in response to determining that the time it would take tonarrate the input document at the desired speech speed is longer than aspecified maximum time, the configured processor generates a longsummary of the input document as a portion (subset) of a plurality ofwords that comprises highest relevant information identified by applyingnatural language processing to the document, and that requires a time tonarrate at the specified speech speed that is less than the specifiedmaximum time. The configured processor generates the long summary byapplying a natural language processing mechanism (NLP) to the inputdocument. The NLP selects the text most relevant to the long summary byidentifying words or phrases which include entities, people, companies,organizations, cities, geographic features and other entities from theplain text representation, by optionally identifying the location of thewords or phrases and by optionally detecting the sentiment of eachentity within the plain text representation and assigning a score (forexample between 0 and 1) to each keyword or phrase. The most relevantwords or phrases are the words or phrases which exceed a long summaryscore threshold. The NLP also selects the most relevant text that whennarrated at the desired speech speed is less than the maximum specifiedtime. For example, if the configured processor determines sentences A,D, and F are the most relevant sentences of an input document containingsentences A, B, C, D, E, and F and determines that the time needed tonarrate A, D, and F is shorter than the specified maximum time at thedesired speech speed, then sentences A, D, and F are added to the longsummary.

At 208, the configured processor generates an audio content file from a(first) subset portion of the long summary word content (illustrativebut not limiting or exhaustive examples include WAV, MP3, and AIFF fileformats) by applying a text-to-speech process to the text of the longsummary, wherein the audio content file is configured to play at thedesired speech speed. For example, if the long summary includes thesentences A, B, and C and the desired speech speed is 150 words perminute, then the configured processor creates an audio file forsentences A, B, and C where sentences A, B, and C are played at 150words per minute.

At 210, the configured processor creates a multimedia slide of amultimedia presentation by adding the generated audio content file ofthe long summary and a presentation of text from a remainder portion ofthe word content of the long summary to the multimedia slide.

FIG. 5 illustrates a process or system according to the presentinvention for creating a presentation based on a document. At 102 aprocessor that is configured according to an aspect of the presentinvention (the “configured processor”) receives an input document. Theinput document may be in any file format, so long as text can beextracted from the input document (illustrative but not limiting orexhaustive examples include a Portable Document Format (PDF), Worddocument or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)).

At 104, the configured processor converts the input document to a plaintext format representation of the document via a document conversionapplication programming interface (API) or other mechanism.

At 106, the configured processor calculates the total number of words inthe plain text representation.

At 108, the configured processor determines or identifies a specified,desired speech speed (for example, 150 words per minute, 300 words perminute, 75 words per minute).

At 110, the configured processor calculates the time it would take tonarrate the calculated number of words in the plain text representationat the desired speech speed. In one example, the configured processorcalculates the time it would take to narrate a 1,500 word plain textwith a desired speech speed of 150 words per minute as 10 minutes. Inanother example, the configured processor calculates the time it wouldtake to narrate a 4,500 word plaint text document with a desired speechspeed of 300 words per minute as 15 minutes. In yet another example, theconfigured processor calculates the time it would take to narrate a6,000 word plaint text document with a desired speech speed of 75 wordsper minute as 80 minutes.

At 112, the configured processor determines or identifies a specified,desired presentation length (for example, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60minutes). The desired presentation length is a user desired length of apresentation, or some other standard or requirement.

At 114, the configured processor calculates a long summary ratio as thequotient of the desired presentation length divided by the calculatedtime needed to narrate the plain text (for example, if the configuredprocessor receives an input of 30 minutes as a desired presentationlength and calculates the time to narrate the plain text as 60 minutes,then the long summary ratio is 0.5).

At 116, the configured processor determines a short summary ratio as afractional value of the long summary ratio. In some aspects, the shortsummary ratio is determined to be 50% or half the long summary ratio(for example, if the long summary ratio is 0.5, then the short summaryratio is 0.25), though other fractional values may be practiced as willbe appreciated by one skilled in the art.

At 118, the configured processor creates a long summary of the plaintext representation based on the long summary ratio. Aspects generatethe long summary by applying a natural language processing (NLP)mechanism, system or process to create a long summary of the plain textrepresentation as the long summary ratio amount of the text content thatis determined to be most relevant to the document. The NLP selects thetext most relevant to the long summary by identifying words or phraseswhich include entities, people, companies, organizations, cities,geographic features and other entities from the plain textrepresentation, by optionally identifying the location of the words orphrases within the document and by optionally detecting the sentiment ofeach entity within the plain text representation and assigning a score(for example between 0 and 1) to each keyword or phrase. The mostrelevant words or phrases are the words or phrases which exceed a longsummary score threshold. For example, if the long summary ratio is 0.5and the long summary score threshold is 0.5, then the aspect will selecthalf the text of the plain text which has been scored as 0.5 or above bythe NLP.

At 120, the configured processor creates a short summary of the plaintext representation based on the short summary ratio. Aspects generatethe short summary by applying the NLP mechanism, system or process tocreate the short summary of the plain text representation as the shortsummary ratio amount of the text content that is determined to be mostrelevant to the document. The NLP selects the text most relevant to theshort summary by identifying words or phrases which include entities,people, companies, organizations, cities, geographic features and otherentities from the plain text representation and optionally detects thesentiment of each entity within the plain text representation andassigns a score (for example between 0 and 1) to each keyword or phrase.The most relevant words or phrases are the words or phrases which exceeda short summary score threshold, which is higher than the long summaryscore threshold, and therefore encompasses less text (for example, ifthe long summary threshold is 0.5 then the short summary threshold maybe 0.75). In one instance where the long summary ratio is 0.25 and theshort summary score threshold is 0.75, then the aspect will select aquarter of the text of the plain text which has been scored as 0.75 orabove by the NLP.

At 122, the configured processor splits the short summary intoindividual sentences and orders the sentences in a list. For example, ifthe short summary includes sentences A, B, and C, the configuredprocessor may order the sentences as 1. A, 2. B, and 3. C.

At 124, the configured processor selects a first sentence of the listand searches the long summary for the same sentence. If the configuredprocessor matches the first selected sentence of the list to a sentencein the long summary, then the configured processor determines theposition of a first matched sentence within the long summary. Forexample, the configured processor selects sentence A from the list ofsentences. The configured processor then searches the long summary,which contains, in its entirety, sentences A, B, C, and D in that order.After determining that the selected sentence A of the list of sentencesmatches sentence A of the long summary, the configured processordetermines that sentence A is the first sentence in the long summary.

At 126, the configured processor selects a second sentence of the listand searches the long summary for the same sentence. If the configuredprocessor matches the second selected sentence of the list to a sentencein the long summary, then the configured processor determines theposition of the second matched sentence within the long summary. Forexample, the configured processor selects sentence C from the list ofsentences. The configured processor then searches the long summary,which contains in its entirety sentences A, B, C, and D in that order.After determining that the selected sentence C of the list of sentencesmatches sentence C of the long summary, the configured processordetermines that sentence C is the third sentence in the long summary.

At 128, the configured processor designates a portion of the text of thelong summary that is located between the first matched sentence and thesecond matched sentence as a cut sentence grouping of the long summary.For example, if the configured processor determines sentence A is thefirst matched sentence of a long summary and determines that sentence Dis the second matched sentence of a long summary which contains, in itsentirety, sentences A, B, C, D, E, and F in that order, then theconfigured processor designates the portion of the long summary betweensentences A and D as the cut sentence grouping. As such, the configuredprocessor designates sentences B and C as the cut sentences grouping ofthe long summary.

At 130, the configured processor adds the first selected sentence to alist called “text sentences.”

At 132, the configured processor adds the cut sentence grouping to alist called “audio sentences.”

At 134, the configured processor pairs the sentences in the “audio” and“text” sentences list based on the order in which they were received.For instance, if sentence A is the first sentence added to the textsentences list and sentences B and C are the first cut sentence groupingadded to the audio sentences list, then sentence A is paired withsentences B and C.

At 136, the configured processor selects a pair of sentences.

At 138, the configured processor generates an audio content file fromthe plain text format content of the “audio sentences” of the selectedpair via application of a text-to-speech processing mechanism, therebycreating an audio file based on the text content of the textselection/grouping (illustrative but not limiting or exhaustive examplesinclude WAV, MP3, and AIFF file formats). For example, if the selectedpair of sentences includes the text sentence A and the audio sentences Band C, then the configured processor applies a text-to-speech process tosentences B and C to create an audio file for sentences B and C.

At 140, the configured processor creates and adds a multimedia slide toa presentation, the multimedia slide comprising the audio file and the“text” sentence of the pair of “text” and “audio” sentences. Forinstance, if the pair includes the text sentence A and the audio filecorresponding to sentences B and C, then text sentence A and the audiofile for sentences B and C are added to a multimedia slide of apresentation. The presentation may be any HTML format (illustrative butnot limiting or exhaustive examples include Power Point, Keynote,Prezi).

At 142, the configured processor plays the presentation once all of thesentence pairs have been added to the presentation based on the inputspeech speed and the input presentation length.

Thus, aspects of the present invention use analytics on a document tocreate a summary of the document. The analytics summarize the content ofthe document using a cognitive approach. In this manner, relevantcontent of the document is presented in a user-friendly manner via apresentation. Doing so saves the user the time of reading the entiredocument.

The terminology used herein is for describing particular aspects onlyand is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, thesingular forms “a”, “an” and “the” are intended to include the pluralforms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It willbe further understood that the terms “include” and “including” when usedin this specification specify the presence of stated features, integers,steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude thepresence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps,operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. Certainexamples and elements described in the present specification, includingin the claims, and as illustrated in the figures, may be distinguished,or otherwise identified from others by unique adjectives (e.g. a “first”element distinguished from another “second” or “third” of a plurality ofelements, a “primary” distinguished from a “secondary” one or “another”item, etc.) Such identifying adjectives are generally used to reduceconfusion or uncertainty, and are not to be construed to limit theclaims to any specific illustrated element or embodiment, or to implyany precedence, ordering or ranking of any claim elements, limitations,or process steps.

The descriptions of the various embodiments of the present inventionhave been presented for purposes of illustration, but are not intendedto be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Manymodifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skillin the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the describedembodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen to best explain theprinciples of the embodiments, the practical application or technicalimprovement over technologies found in the marketplace, or to enableothers of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodimentsdisclosed herein.

What is claimed is:
 1. A computer-implemented method for creating apresentation based on a text document, comprising executing on acomputer processor: calculating a time it would take to narrate aplurality of words in a document at a specified speech speed; inresponse to determining that the time it would take to narrate theplurality of words in the document at the specified speech speed exceedsa specified maximum time, generating a long summary of the document as asubset of the plurality of words that comprises the highest relevantinformation identified by applying natural language processing to thedocument, and that requires a time to narrate at the specified speechspeed that is less than the specified maximum time; generating audiocontent for a first portion of the plurality of words of the longsummary by applying a text-to-speech processing mechanism to the portionof the long summary at the desired speech speed; and creating amultimedia slide of a multimedia presentation by adding the generatedaudio content to a presentation of text from a remainder portion of theplurality of words of the long summary.
 2. The method of claim 1,further comprising: integrating computer-readable program code into acomputer system comprising a processor, a computer readable memory incircuit communication with the processor, and a computer readablestorage medium in circuit communication with the processor; and whereinthe processor executes program code instructions stored on thecomputer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memory andthereby performs the steps of calculating the time it would take tonarrate the plurality of words in a document at the specified speechspeed; generating the long summary of the document in response todetermining that the time it would take to narrate the plurality ofwords in the document at the specified speech speed exceeds thespecified maximum time, generating the audio content for the firstportion of the plurality of words of the long summary, and creating themultimedia slide of the multimedia presentation.
 3. The method of claim1, wherein the computer-readable program code is provided as a servicein a cloud environment.
 4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:calculating a long summary ratio by dividing the specified time by thecalculated time it would take to narrate the number of words in thedocument at the desired speech speed; and generating the long summary byapplying natural language processing to select the first portion of thedocument to comprise an amount of text content that is a long summaryratio percentage of text content defined by the plurality of words inthe document.
 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the natural languageprocessing generates relevance scores for text content of the document,the method further comprising: generating the long summary by selectingtext content having relevance scores above a long summary threshold. 6.The method of claim 5, further comprising: calculating a short summaryratio as a fractional amount of the long summary ratio; generating ashort summary by applying the natural language processing to select asecond portion of the document comprising a short summary ratio amountof the plurality of words of the document that have the highestrelevance scores; matching a first sentence of the short summary to afirst sentence of the long summary; matching a second sentence of theshort summary to a second sentence of the long summary; designating thefirst portion of the plurality of words of the long summary as words ofthe long summary located between the first sentence and the secondsentence; generating the audio content by applying the text-to-speechprocessing mechanism to the first portion; and creating the multimediaslide by adding the first sentence of the short summary and the audiocontent to the multimedia slide.
 7. The method of claim 6, furthercomprising, generating the short summary by selecting scored text havingrelevance scores above a short summary threshold.
 8. The method of claim5, further comprising: selecting the short summary ratio to be half thelong summary ratio.
 9. The method of claim 6, further comprising: usingthe natural language processing to score the text content of thedocument based on the location of phrases within the document.
 10. Asystem comprising: a processor; a computer readable memory in circuitcommunication with the processor; and a computer readable storage mediumin circuit communication with the processor; wherein the processorexecutes program instructions stored on the computer-readable storagemedium via the computer readable memory and thereby: calculates a timeit would take to narrate a plurality of words in a document at aspecified speech speed; in response to determining that the time itwould take to narrate the plurality of words in the document at thespecified speech speed exceeds a specified maximum time, generates along summary of the document as a subset of the plurality of words thatcomprises the highest relevant information identified by applyingnatural language processing to the document, and that requires a time tonarrate at the specified speech speed that is less than the specifiedmaximum time; generates audio content for a first portion of theplurality of words of the long summary by applying a text-to-speechprocessing mechanism to the portion of the long summary at the desiredspeech speed; and creates a multimedia slide of a multimediapresentation by adding the generated audio content to a presentation oftext from a remainder portion of the plurality of words of the longsummary.
 11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor executes theprogram instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium viathe computer readable memory and thereby: calculates a long summaryratio by dividing the specified time by the calculated time it wouldtake to narrate the number of words in the document at the desiredspeech speed; and generates the long summary by applying naturallanguage processing to select the first portion of the document tocomprise an amount of text content that is a long summary ratiopercentage of text content defined by the plurality of words in thedocument.
 12. The system of claim 11, wherein the natural languageprocessing generates relevance scores for text content of the documentand wherein the processor executes the program instructions stored onthe computer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memoryand thereby: generates the long summary by selecting text content havingrelevance scores above a long summary threshold.
 13. The system of claim12, wherein the processor executes the program instructions stored onthe computer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memoryand thereby: calculates a short summary ratio as a fractional amount ofthe long summary ratio; generates a short summary by applying thenatural language processing to select a second portion of the documentcomprising a short summary ratio amount of the plurality of words of thedocument that have the highest relevance scores; matches a firstsentence of the short summary to a first sentence of the long summary;matches a second sentence of the short summary to a second sentence ofthe long summary; designates the first portion of the plurality of wordsof the long summary as words of the long summary located between thefirst sentence and the second sentence; generates the audio content byapplying the text-to-speech processing mechanism to the first portion;and creates the multimedia slide by adding the first sentence of theshort summary and the audio content to the multimedia slide.
 14. Thesystem of claim 13, wherein the processor executes the programinstructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium via thecomputer readable memory and thereby: generates the short summary byselecting scored text having relevance scores above a short summarythreshold.
 15. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor executesthe program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage mediumvia the computer readable memory and thereby: uses the natural languageprocessing to score the text content of the document based on thelocation of phrases within the document.
 16. A computer program productfor scheduling an event, the computer program product comprising: acomputer readable storage medium having computer readable program codeembodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is nota transitory signal per se, the computer readable program codecomprising instructions for execution by a processor that cause theprocessor to: calculate a time it would take to narrate a plurality ofwords in a document at a specified speech speed; in response todetermining that the time it would take to narrate the plurality ofwords in the document at the specified speech speed exceeds a specifiedmaximum time, generate a long summary of the document as a subset of theplurality of words that comprises the highest relevant informationidentified by applying natural language processing to the document, andthat requires a time to narrate at the specified speech speed that isless than the specified maximum time; generate audio content for a firstportion of the plurality of words of the long summary by applying atext-to-speech processing mechanism to the portion of the long summaryat the desired speech speed; and create a multimedia slide of amultimedia presentation by adding the generated audio content to apresentation of text from a remainder portion of the plurality of wordsof the long summary.
 17. The computer program product of claim 16,wherein the computer readable program code instructions for execution bythe processor further cause the processor to: calculate a long summaryratio by dividing the specified time by the calculated time it wouldtake to narrate the number of words in the document at the desiredspeech speed; and generate the long summary by applying natural languageprocessing to select the first portion of the document to comprise anamount of text content that is a long summary ratio percentage of textcontent defined by the plurality of words in the document.
 18. Thecomputer program product of claim 17, wherein the natural languageprocessing generates relevance scores for text content of the documentand wherein the computer readable program code instructions forexecution by the processor further cause the processor to: generate thelong summary by selecting text content having relevance scores above along summary threshold.
 19. The computer program product of claim 18,wherein the computer readable program code instructions for execution bythe processor further cause the processor to: calculate a short summaryratio as a fractional amount of the long summary ratio; generate a shortsummary by applying the natural language processing to select a secondportion of the document comprising a short summary ratio amount of theplurality of words of the document that have the highest relevancescores; match a first sentence of the short summary to a first sentenceof the long summary; match a second sentence of the short summary to asecond sentence of the long summary; designate the first portion of theplurality of words of the long summary as words of the long summarylocated between the first sentence and the second sentence; generate theaudio content by applying the text-to-speech processing mechanism to thefirst portion; and create the multimedia slide by adding the firstsentence of the short summary and the audio content to the multimediaslide.
 20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein thecomputer readable program code instructions for execution by theprocessor further cause the processor to: generate the short summary byselecting scored text having relevance scores above a short summarythreshold.